The Curandera is Nature Herself

Tatiana Aya Tupinambá is an Indigenous Tupinambá woman. She is a curandera in the Ashaninka lineage of Peru, and she also studies in the Yawanawá lineage of Brazil. She trained for more than ten years under Maestro Juan Salazar Flores in Peru, before he passed on, at his center on the banks of the sacred boiling river, Shanay-Timpishka. She carries the medicine with the seriousness of someone who was called to it, and grounds every ceremony in lineage, intention, and the wellbeing of each person in the circle. Her ceremonial name, Aya, means little bird in Yawanawá. It was given to her by the tribe.